Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
00000176-4e34-d3bc-a977-4f7c3a150000On Shasta Serenade, host Barry Hazle mixes up an eclectic brew of Americana, blues, rockabilly, folk, bluegrass and timeless standards from his perch in Oak Run. Shasta Serenade airs Saturdays at 12 p.m.

Shasta Serenade: Rock-A-Barry Weekend

Ricky Nelson

It’s the last weekend of the month folks and that means it’s time for The Rock-a-Barry Weekend Show. This month I concentrate on 1957 through 1959 with a few tunes from other years. Do you remember the top selling record in 1958? It wasn’t recorded in the USA, and has sold over 22 million copies. We’ll also hear form Andy Williams, The Shields, Patsy Cline, LaVern Baker, Little Anthony & The Imperials, Rick Nelson and many more. Sit back and relax with Rock n’ Roll, R&B, Country, Folk and pop music from the 40’s to the 70’s. Or, roll up that rug and burn some off that Turkey off!   

11.28.2015_rockabarry_hour_2.mp3
Listen to Shasta Serenade (Part 2)

  

Barry was a foundling in an old adobe in Southern California, adopted by nomadic Polish Gypsies, and lived with them until the age of 50. He has had no formal schooling, but learned to play the fiddle by the age of five. Throughout his early years, one could find him fiddling away in the foothills of Northern California tending his Lithuanian goats, making cheese and goat meat Kielbasa. He was renowned for his sheepherder’s bread making. He accidentally baked a rock into a particularly delicious loaf of bread, on which the chief of the gypsy clan broke a bicuspid. The clan seized his shepherd's cane and the Chief broke it in half tossing the parts to the ground. Barry was thus humiliated, and banished for life from the only family he had ever known. (Later, Barry sold the recipe for the Kielbasa to the NHL for a small fortune – they use it in the manufacturing of hockey pucks).